The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
"Most of the People were Very Strange-Looking": Soviet Siberian Labor Camp in the Eyes of a Child
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Samuel Ponczak—Holocaust survivor, polyglot, and translator—remembers how years after his family left a Soviet Siberian Labor Camp, he asked his father about why he thought the people of the camp looked strange when he was there as a young child.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Samuel Ponczak.
This excerpt is in English.
Samuel Ponczak was born in Warsaw, Poland.